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G " o o o G rt3KUtVTQHT (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, October 12, 1955 HMPfK,. - mrr. ..mi" '-fmr" -:- : II. I'M II - , GRATEFUL TO U. S. NaVt for rescuing thousands in flood-ravaged Tampico, Mexico, distributing food and supplies, this family expresses appreciation with huge sign painted on roof of house. Floods swept area in wake of hurricane Janet. (International Soundpnou) Truman Says He Learned in 1946 Potsdam Conference That Russia Was Not in Earnest About Peace o Washington (U.R) Former President Harry S. Truman said , today he learned at the 1945 Potsdam Big Three conference that Russia's leaders then were "pigheaded people" and "not in earnest about peace." In the fourth installment of hisfmemoirs written for Life magazine, Mr. Truman said his personal meeting with Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin at Potsdam enabled me to see at first hand what we had to face" in postwar relations with Russia. 1 He said he decided then "that I would not allow the Russians any part in the control of Japan" after VJ Day. Devoted To Meeting ' The fourth installment of the ex-President's memoirs, devoted entirely to the Potsdam meet ing with Stalin and British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, also contained these footnotes to history: 1. Mr. Truman become so "im patient" with Stalin's obstruc tionism and Churchill's ' "long speeches" that "I felt like blow ing -the roof off the palace." At the third session of the confer ence he got so fed up with a pro longed British-Russian wrangle over Yugoslavia that he told Sta lin and Churchill "if they did not get to the main issues, I was going to pick up and go home." 2. In a letter to his mother and sister Mary at the end of the conference, Mr. Truman wrote: "You never saw such pig-headed people as are the Russians. I hope I never have to hold another con ference with them but of course I will." Got Renewed Pledge 3. Stalin's arrival at Potsdam was "to get from Stalin a per sonal reaffirmation" of Russia's Yalta conference promise to en ter the war against Japan. Mr. Truman got such a renewed pledge from Stalin "in the very first days of the conference." But later Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov suggested that the United States and Britain "ad dress a formal request to the Soviet government" for help against Japan. Mr. Truman re garded this as a "cynical" Rus sian maneuver to grab the glory for defeating Japan. He resolved not to "let Russia reap the fruits of a long and bitter and gallant effort in which she had no part." 5. The renewal of Russia's promise to enter the Far East war was "the only secret agree ment made at Potsdam." 6. Mr. Truman found the Rus sian leaders "relentless bargain ers forever pressing for every advantage to themselves." "It did not seem possible that only a few miles from the war-shattered seat of Nazi power, the head of any government would not bend every effort to attain a real peace. Yet I was not altogether disillusioned to find now that the Russians were not in earnest about peace." Inconclusive Arguments Mr. Truman's day-by-day rec ord of the Potsdam negotiations showed that the three powers ar gued, sometimes sharply and nearly always inconclusively, about Italy -and her former col onies, Yugoslavia, the puppet governments Russia was setting up in Eastern Europe, Poland's western frontier with Germany, and control of the Dardanelles Straits. At the end of the conference, they wrangled over wording of the communique, or as Mr. Tru- Large Vegetation Area Appears on Planet Mars Washington A new blue- green area on the red face of Mars, almost the size of Texas and believed to be living vege tation, has produced the great est change in Martian geography since the planet was first map ped 125 years ago. The discovery is announced by Dr. E. C. Slipher, a disting uished astronomer and leader of the 1954 National Geographic Lowell Observatory Mars Expe dition to photograph the planet from South Africa. Last summer, as it will again in 1956, Mars set off a world wide study by spinning closer to the earth than at any time since 1941. Results of its near approach are gradually being revealed by scientific scrutiny of thousands of photographs collected by an International Mars Committee. Twenty thous and photographs were made by Dr. Slipher alone. Unexpected Change The new dark marking, cov ering approximately 200,000 square miles near the great Thoth Canal, was totally unex pected. Never before has such a new dark splotch appeared except as an increase of an existing dark area. The remarkable transforma tion, Dr. Slipher reports, in dicates that the division between Food Output Seen As Second Highest Washington (U.R) The total output of food, feed and fiber from the nation's farms for 1955 is almost certain to be the sec ond highest on record because of favorable crop developments in September. The Agriculture department's crop reporting board said Tues day crop developments during the last month were favorable for most crops "and as of Oct. 1 strongly upheld estimates of to tal output as the second highest on record." The record total crop was grown in 1948. The board said the progress of the fall harvest has brought "important to moderate" in creases in production estimates over Sept. 1 for cotton, hay, sorghum grain, rice, peanuts and tobacco, and "slight increases" for corn and dry beans. Slight decreases were estimated for soy beans, flaxseed, potatoes, sugar beets, sweet potatoes and hops. man put it, "The three foreign secretaries found that they could not agree among themselves on just what it was that the heads of government' had agreed to do." 1. G00D)e ; a Pi- 3. i 1 4. -cause HFS gett USED CAR Ar... 5 Be Sure of Better selection. Ford Dealers sell more new cars than other dealers. So they have more wonderfully good turn-ins to be sold as used cars. Whatever make or model you want, you're most likely to find it at your Ford Dealers . Lower prices. Ford Dealers are volume dealers. Their business prospers on quick turn-over. So used car prices are always cut to the bone to keep inventory moving fast. More dependability. Your Ford Dealer is an established business man. His reputation de pends on keeping you pleased with every car he sells used as well as new. Q You're Sure with your FORD DEALER'S used cans nriD trucks Martian desert and dark areas is not necessarily fixed or perm anent; one may change to the other at any time. It helps sup port the conclusion that Mars is not a dead world, that the darkening is due to the growth of plant life. Biologists suggest that this life may be akin to lichens that grows on earth's barren rocks and mountaintops. To learn more, Dr. Slipher says, such plants soon may be grown in the laboratory under the phy sical and chemical conditions thought to exist on Mars. From the photographic record that the Mars Committee made with special filters, cameras, and earth's neighboring planet have lenses, other new features of been found. One is the existence of faint belis or bands in the atmosphere above the face of Mars, less distinct than those of Jupiter and Saturn, but in dicating definite atmospheric circulation. Thin Air and Ice Because Mars is only half earth's size and thus has only feeble gravity, its atmosphere is thinner than that at the top of Mount Everest. Very little, if indeed any, free oxygen re mains, and little water vapor. Yet brilliant blue-white clouds were seen, as well as gleaming polar caps and great "yellow clouds" of blowing dust. . With filters capable of pierc ing the violet haze of the Mar tian atmosphere, Dr. Slipher watched spring turn to sum mer on the red and green planet. The visible south polar cap warmed and slowly shrank. Green fringes formed along the edge of the retreating sheet of ice or hoarfrost. The great blue-green areas began to mark the orange-red desert surface the so-called "wave of darkness" that is the strongest evidence that Mars is still a living planet. "That these dark areas are vegetation and that the change in color is somehow connected with release of water from the melting, shrinking polar icecap is no longer seriously doubted by most "observers," Dr Slipher notes. "In fact, all the various Mar tian markings betoken that it is a living planet, that life of some sort exists there." Court Records 0 POLICE COURT A. P. Hubbard, violation of haste rule. S10. Samuel David Cook, following too close. $10. John Paul Jones, violation of basic rule, S10. Rachel Katherine Kneebone. disre garding traffic light. S5. Ole Sam Larson, violation of basic rule. S10. Keith Pingston, no operator's li cense, $5: violation of basic rule, $10. Enid Colleen Wolff, failure to stop at red light. S3. Commercial forest and alpine land produces more than 80 per cent of California's annual streamflow. Extra Savings In Best Aspirin Relief Possible Feel better fast get extra economy; too. 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